Road to Revolution Vocabulary - Part One

Law that required colonists to house British soldiers and provide them with supplies.

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

• Housing Act

• Sugar Act

Law that placed a tax on sugar, molasses, and other goods shipped to the colonies.

• Quartering Act

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

Law that taxed printed goods, including: playing cards, documents, newspapers, etc.

• Quartering Act

• Stamp Act

• Townshend Acts

• Sugar Act

A refusal to buy or use goods or services.

• writs of assistance

• boycott

• Loyalist

• Patriot

A secret society created to oppose British policies. Staged protests and riots in cities across the colonies.

• Sons of Liberty

• Writs of Assistance

• Patriots

• Loyalists

Colonists who supported the British.

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Sons of Liberty

• Militia

Colonists who supported the idea of independence.

• Patriots

• Loyalists

• Militia

• Writs of Assistance

Member of the Virginia House of Burgesses who called for resistance to the Stamp Act.

• Crispus Attucks

• Paul Revere

• Patrick Henry

• King George III

A series of laws passed by Parliament in 1767 that suspended New York's assembly and established taxes on goods brought into the British colonies.

• Quartering Act

• Townshend Acts

• Stamp Act

• Sugar Act

Search warrants used by British soldiers to enter colonial homes or businesses to search for smuggled goods.

• Townshend Acts

• Writs of Assistance

• Militia

• Intolerable Acts